Chat show host Rosie O'Donnell's $2.5m Chicago townhouse has a buyer just one day after hitting the market

Just one day after being put on the market, talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell's 12-room, 6,000-square-foot house in Chicago has a buyer.

Hours after O'Donnell listed the five-bedroom house for $2.5 million, the home went under contract according to the Chicago Tribune.

It is not known when O'Donnell, who bought the house last fall for $2.25 million from Erik Logan, the president of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, will close on the sale.

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Though O'Donnell has occupied a corporate apartment while working in Chicago, she had lived in the home for a time.

However, the Chicago Tribune reported
thatwith her children visiting her in Chicago from their New York home
only on weekends, the talk-show host feels she does not need so much
space

'She said, 'I don't need this big of a
house,'' said her listing agent, Janelle Emalfarb-Gordon of Koenig
& Strey. 'She also said, 'I wish I could take this house to New
York with me.' "

O'Donnell's longterm base has been in
the New York City area, though she has begun working out of Chicago
with the launch last year of her Chicago-based The Rosie Show talk
show.

The show is produced by Winfrey's Harpo Studios.

The 6000 square foot three story, extra wide property has five bedrooms and seven baths and was built in 2007.

With 12 expansive rooms, including a marble floored entrance hall and a huge formal living room with 11 foot ceilings, to a formal dining room and adjacent professional kitchen with its own casual living area, the house feels more like a mansion than a townhouse.